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Hatton, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1986. It stands in White Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71937. The Survey maps it on the Wickes quadrangle. It stands 1,194 feet above sea level.

Hatton within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

58 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Hatton between 1997 and 2020, burning about 356 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 20 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Arson/incendiarism20
Debris and open burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1999Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2002Debris and open burning17 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2010Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hatton: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
HablitzelManganeseProspect

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hatton in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2019: 3 hail, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2010Flash FloodHatton$2,000Flooding occurred on U.S. Highway 71 between Hatton and Wickes.
May 2010HailHatton-Marble to golf ball size hail covered the ground.
June 2019HailHatton-no account filed
January 2006HailHatton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Vandervoort1.6 miles16
Bethel Chapel3.3 miles16
Roff (historical)3.4 miles16
Bog Springs3.6 miles16
Wickes4.2 miles16
Cove5.7 miles16
McCauley5.9 miles16
Buffalo (historical)6.1 miles16

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on HattonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14680889The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57899. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.